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Your cultural event guide
Here's a snapshot of our favorite things to do in San Francisco this week. |
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San Francisco
Jun 17-23, 2008
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The rainbow flags are fluttering on Market Street, which can only mean one thing: the countdown to P-Day has officially begun. You can get your queer on in all sorts of ways, whether you opt to taste some Fresh Meat or get serviced by a Warhol double bill. Poet Daphne Gottlieb recounts imagined affairs with dames, famous and deceased, and Le Tigre buddy Tammy Rae Carland turns her camera to lesbian outposts. San Francisco truly comes in many colors. What's yours?
- Matt Sussman, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Radio Ephemera
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Chicago's Third Coast Festival has teamed up with San Francisco's Prelinger Library to produce the Radio Ephemera competition. Create an audio story based on some of the Prelinger's delightfully weird old books and cultural ephemera and you could present your submission at the Third Coast Festival Conference in Evanston this October.
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Culture Scribes Wanted
We're looking for performing-arts and nightlife writers. Apply to join our team!
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Prosper.com
At the eBay of the banking world, the collectible is capital.
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READING
Daphne Gottlieb: Kissing Dead Girls and Fucking Daphne
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Tuesday June 17 (7pm)
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City Lights (261 Columbus Ave, 415.362.8193)
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Daphne Gottlieb's poetry — which entwines academic language and dirty talk — is populated with personas, from the archetypal slasher-film survivor of Final Girl (2003) to pan-historical lovers Josephine Baker, Amelia Earhart, Anne Frank, Frida Kahlo, JonBenét Ramsey, and other famous deceased females in Kissing Dead Girls. Gottlieb plays a persona herself — both character and caricature — in the "tell-all" anthology Fucking Daphne, which contains quasi-fictional writings by her contemporaries. Tonight, Gottlieb and friends delve into both Kissing and Fucking in an event for fans of high and low art alike.
- Matt Sussman
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Wolf Eyes w/ Headboggle and Rubber O Cement
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Tuesday June 17 (9pm)
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Bottom of the Hill (1233 17th St, 415.621.4455)
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Wolf Eyes have earned quite a reputation for doomy antagonism. Well-meaning critics tend to exaggerate the Sub Pop band's "scary" and "face-melting" qualities — but, just as with their sonic forefathers Throbbing Gristle, there's a vein of merry, Fluxus-style pranksterism running through the cacophony. (Check out the hilarious "breakdown" midway through their 2004 single, "Stabbed in the Face.") Plus, all that whizzing synth skronk masks some (relatively) danceable rhythms — helping to make the trio one of the most prominent and accessible noise acts around. Your face may not actually melt, but it'll certainly have a big grin on it for a few hours.
- Stephen Gossett
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MORE FLAVOR: Discussion
Salman Rushdie
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Wednesday June 18 (8pm)
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Herbst Theater (401 Van Ness Ave, 415.621.6600)
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The Enchantress of Florence shows that Salman Rushdie's tabloid popularity hasn't hurt his literary prowess. The Indian-born author spent nearly a decade in hiding due to his controversial, fatwa-inducing novel The Satanic Verses, but somehow his failed marriage to Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi has attracted the most attention in recent years. Gossip aside, Rushdie's most recent novel is about a medieval traveler who regales a Mughal emperor with the story of a mysterious and beautiful woman in the distant European city of Florence. The fantastical tale is yet another example of Rushdie's skill as a storyteller and cultural commentator.
- Chelsea Bauch
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MUSIC: DJ
Skream w/ Benga
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Wednesday June 18 (9pm)
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Mighty (119 Utah St, 415.762.0151)
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Tonight, Skream returns to SF to rattle some more chestplates. The bwoy from Croydon has introduced elements of house, jazz, and electro to dubstep's huge bass weight and brought his sound around the world. A laundry list of releases on Tempa, Big Apple, and Soul Jazz, combined with his claimed 1,500 unreleased dubs, ensure that his set list is packed with surprises. He's joined by Benga, who rides in on the success of last year's anthem "Night," his collaboration with DMZ's Coki. His latest LP, Diary of an Afro Warrior, throws a brick in the dubstep template by eschewing murky half-step beats and clichéd wobble bass in favor of soul and electro influences.
- Axel Anderson
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PERFORMING ARTS: Theatre
Marc Bamuthi Joseph: the break/s
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Thursday June 19 (8pm)
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Novellus Theater (701 Mission St, 415.978.2787)
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If Marc Bamuthi Joseph seems to garner an absurd number of accolades (National Poetry Slam Champ, San Francisco Bay Guardian GOLDIE winner, too many grants to count), it's for good reason. Besides serving as artistic director for the Living Word Project, the Oakland artist is passionate about bringing hip-hop into conversation with different cultures. His latest work, the break/s, is a typically bravura performance piece drawing on dance, spoken word, music, and video. Partly inspired by local author Jeff Chang's hip-hop tome, Can't Stop Won't Stop, Joseph folds his own personal history into hip-hop's splintered legacy.
- Max Goldberg
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MORE FLAVOR: Festival
Frameline32: San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
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Thursday June 19
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Various locations
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This year, the world's largest and oldest LGBT film festival is in transition. Outgoing Artistic Director Michael Lumpkin receives the 2008 Frameline Award, and he has programmed a survey of personal favorites — such as Law of Desire (1987), Bound (1996), and Karmen Geï (2001) — from his 28 years of guiding the festival. New standouts include the Centerpiece presentation of Lucía Puenzo's intersex teen drama, XXY; All of Me, the first LGBT entry from Egypt; Matt Wolf's documentary about the late disco producer Arthur Russell; a sneak peak of Del Shores' TV adaptation of his play Sordid Lives; and gay zombie sex courtesy of consummate shit-starter Bruce LaBruce.
- Matt Sussman
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ART: Photography
Tammy Rae Carland: An Archive of Feelings
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Friday June 20 (7–10pm)
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Silverman Gallery (804 Sutter St, 415.255.9508)
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It should come as no surprise that Tammy Rae Carland's solo exhibition, An Archive of Feelings, draws its title from Ann Cvetkovich's lauded book. Between Carland's impressive resume (the photographer is also a filmmaker and the co-founder of Mr. Lady Records) and Cvetkovich's scholarship, the pair combine contemporary queer theory with memory, trauma, and the creative impulse. The artist takes indelible bird's-eye-view shots of "lesbian beds" (sans lesbians), pictures of text scrawled on the backs of photographs, and posed family portraits. Her new work in Archive illustrates her ongoing fascination with reenactment, mortality, and sexuality.
- Isaac Amala
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Earth w/ Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter
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Friday June 20 (9pm)
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Great American Music Hall (859 O'Farrell St, 415.885.0750)
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Drone druids Boris and Sunn O))) reined in their feedback on the 2006 collaboration, "The Sinking Belle (Blue Sheep)," to clear the way for Sweet Hereafter singer Jesse Sykes to emerge from the swirl of cymbals and mournful guitar and lament things lost in a half croon, half croak. It was undeniably Altar's standout track. Thus, it seems safe to conjecture that Sykes' co-headlining set with dirge-masters Earth will evoke "The Sinking Belle"'s mixture of metal suffocation and post-rock expansiveness. Since reuniting, Earth have traded their glacial drones for Morricone-style twang, and Sykes' Marianne Faithful-meets-Beth Gibbons voice couldn't make a more fitting addition.
- Matt Sussman
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MORE FLAVOR: Festival
The Big ONE: A Community Convergence for Conscious Change
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Saturday June 21 (9am–7pm)
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Sharon Meadow (Golden Gate Park)
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A few years ago, a group of committed Bay Area citizens and nonprofits decided to throw hesitation out the window and make good on their discussions of community unity and sustainability. Teaming up with WiserEarth, they organized an annual "convergence," and, rather than letting the high-falutin' term get in the way of real togetherness, the event has been built and billed as "the city's largest potluck." The Big ONE is entirely noncommercial — featuring free food, drink, and music — and aims for zero waste. Come mingle, learn, and celebrate in civic solidarity at Golden Gate Park.
- Nicholas Nauman
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MORE FLAVOR: Fashion
Striptease Auction and Fashion Trunk Show
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Saturday June 21 (7–10pm)
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The Lab (2948 16th St, 415.864.8855)
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This saucy fashion show is quite literally prêt-à-porter, as models shed their outfits and accessories right on the runway and hand them over to the highest bidder. Organized by the LAB — the interdisciplinary arts incubator that has supported the Bay Area creative scene over than two decades now — the evening features an eclectic roster of up-and-coming designers. Among the many must-sees and tempting buys, Erin Mahoney presents dresses that reinterpret classic glamor with vivid modern textiles, while Nouveau Motley sends down beautiful brass necklaces created from the guts of antique watches.
- Tanya Feldman
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MUSIC: Global
Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 w/ Sila and the AfroFunk Experience
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Sunday June 22 (2pm)
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Stern Grove (19th Ave & Sloat Blvd)
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Seun Kuti first took to the stage with his father's Egypt 80 group when he was nine-years-old. Today, he's the one fronting the large band, carrying on the tradition of Fela's politically aware brand of Afrobeat. Seun's spitfire vocals and Egypt 80's well-oiled rhythms are a treat; expect Stern Grove to be packed for the band's San Francisco debut. Victor Sila, a San Franciscan-via-Kenya, warms up the crowd with his own hardworking band, Sila and the AfroFunk Experience.
- Max Goldberg
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FILM
The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
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Sunday June 22 (2, 4:15, 7:15 & 9:30pm)
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Red Vic (1727 Haight St, 415.668.3994)
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There are other movies (Citizen Kane, The Seventh Seal) that routinely top critics' all-time lists, but rarely does a movie so thoroughly enchant cineastes — and audiences in general — like Max Ophüls' glittering Belle Époque love story. The Earrings of Madame de... swaths a brutally emotional core in sumptuous period finery and cinematic bijoux like the director's constantly moving camera. When the titular Countess (Danielle Darrieux, never more beautiful) sells a pair of diamond earrings given to her by her husband, she sets off a chain of events that, like the film's famous waltz scene, eventually comes full circle, with tragic results.
- Matt Sussman
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Tartufi w/ The Dont's and Finn Riggins
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Monday June 23 (8:30pm)
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Cafe du Nord (2170 Market St, 415.861.5016)
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For one of its periodic "Locals Only" nights, Cafe du Nord spotlights two San Francisco bands that worship at the altar of '90s guitar rock. Tartufi make a remarkable amount of noise for a duo, with nuanced loops and time signatures running under the otherwise brawny attack of distortion and Lynne Angel's powerhouse vocals. Unabashedly emotive, the band aims for the same peaks as Built to Spill and Explosions in the Sky. The Dont's play a similarly expansive style of indie rock, but with sharper angles and cleaner riffs.
- Max Goldberg
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Liz Phair: Exile in Guyville
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Monday June 23 (9pm)
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The Fillmore (1805 Geary Blvd, 415.346.6000)
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Liz Phair was not the only woman channeling desire and anger through a guitar in the early '90s, but she was perhaps the most convincing. For instance, it's hard to imagine Alanis Morissette's 1995 blockbuster, Jagged Little Pill, without Phair's Exile in Guyville paving the way. The Chicago rocker has since retreated into MOR territory, but, perhaps sensing that she'll forever be associated with the blunt assertions of her early work, she returns to her most celebrated album for a track-by-track performance at the Fillmore. Exile in Guyville is reissued the same week, but this special performance acknowledges the album's resonance as a Gen X touchstone.
- Max Goldberg
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PERFORMING ARTS: Theatre
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
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Tuesday June 17
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American Conservatory Theater (415 Geary St, 415.749.2228)
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Passions run hot, and blood flows freely in ACT's riveting production of John Ford's grim, rarely staged 17th-century revenge story. Michael Hayden and René Augesen's performances make the incestuous siblings Giovanni and Annabella almost sympathetic to viewers, especially when compared to the vendetta-fueled treachery and Machiavellian scheming that swirls around them. But no one is beyond inflicting extreme cruelty in Ford's Parma, most notably the church's officers. Perched angel-like above the fray, avant-punk cellist Bonfire Madigan Shive provides a running musical commentary — alternately bowing softly and spitting vitriol — as the play moves toward its literally heartrending finale.
- Matt Sussman
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ART: Photography
Amy Stein: New American Fables
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Thursday July 3 (5:30–7:30pm)
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Robert Koch Gallery (49 Geary St, 415.421.0122)
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Amy Stein's twisted fables are a far cry from anything Aesop ever wrote. Unlike the tales of ancient storybooks, Stein's photographic narratives rarely end with comforting bits of wisdom. Her surreal tableaux — inspired by news reports — depict deer, coyotes, and bears roaming suburban lawns and meddling in humans' domestic affairs. If there is any lesson to be learned, it's that we might not fare so well in the wild. Accompanying the fables is Stein's Halloween in Harlem series, in which tiny trick-or-treaters decked out as fairies and superheroes flaunt their colorful costumes against the backdrop of gritty NYC streets. They're also creatures out of place, but this time the jungle is urban.
- Jeanne Storck
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About Us |
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Cultural Partner
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Editors
MANAGING EDITOR
Matt Sussman
DEPUTY EDITOR
Max Goldberg
PRODUCTION EDITOR
Axel Anderson
SENIOR EDITORS
Anna Balkrishna
Doug Levy
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Seiji Carpenter
Connie Hwong
Nicholas Nauman
Andrew Phillips
Lisa Rosman
IMAGE EDITORS
Adda Birnir
Sarah Steele
PUBLISHERS
Sascha Lewis
Mark Mangan
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